Black History Month

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Across
  1. 2. First black female in Congress.
  2. 5. First black woman director in Hollywood.
  3. 9. “I have a dream”
  4. 12. Best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
  5. 14. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20 year career with the Los Angeles Lakers.
  6. 15. African American agricultural scientist and inventor.
  7. 17. First African American women to hold a pilot license
  8. 18. The first black women to lead an armed military raid.
Down
  1. 1. One of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.
  2. 3. Played fifteen seasons in National Basketball Association between 1984 and 2003
  3. 4. First black woman to own her own production company.
  4. 6. Father of the abolitionist movement.
  5. 7. First black woman to win an Olympic gold medal
  6. 8. First black woman to travel into space
  7. 10. First African American child to attend a whites only elementary school.
  8. 11. Born into slavery in Swaterkill
  9. 13. First African American Supreme Court Justice.
  10. 16. “Queen Bey”